Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 14
The great fish floated on the water like a little sun-fish; when it touched the shore the birds fed on its flesh, and Menabozho came out and went to his grandmother, Nokomis.
Who acts: great fish, Menabozho · What happens: float, touch, feed, come out, go · To what, where: great fish, water, shore, birds
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great fish, Menabozho), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fish | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fish | amod |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fish | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sun | punct |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 touched | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shore | conj |
| 22 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 birds | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 flesh | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 25 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 28 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 grandmother | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Nokomis | punct |
| 37 | Nokomis | Nokomis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 grandmother | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle | the great fish not said here | the water | like a little sun fish | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | touch | past | the great fish | the shore and the birds | fish nsubj | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | participle | the birds not said here | on fish's flesh | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flesh=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | Menabozho | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Menabozho not said here | to Menabozho's grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grandmother=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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